Business & GA

Perspectives: Standards For UAV Access To The NAS 

While a key mission of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) is to promote the capabilities of its membership, AUVSI also is wrestling with thorny regulatory issues regarding the operation…

ATM Modernization

Safety: Pink Slips And Brown Herrings

A new advisory circular, AC 120-80, on in-flight fires rates a pink slip, according to Capt. Ken Adams. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) examiner gives a pink slip to a pilot who…

ATM Modernization

Scan

ARINC's Electronic Flight Bag ARINC Inc. has introduced a Class 2 electronic flight bag (EFB), the first Class 2 EFB for commercial airliners, it says, that can display real-time surveillance video of…

ATM Modernization

WAAS Accelerates

Nearly a year since commissioning the wide area augmentation system (WAAS) with initial capability, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is marching ahead to maximize the availability of precision-like approach capability. The satellite-based…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Wire & Cable: The Long-Awaited NPRM

After more than five years of working group meetings, research and reports, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finally announced in early May its intent to issue the long-awaited notice of proposed rulemaking…

Business & GA

Choosing An EFB For Your Bizjet

Electronic flight bags (EFBs) are quickly becoming a fixture in today's business jet cockpits. Small wonder: lightweight laptop or notebook computer-based EFBs can replace heavy paper manuals, charts and check lists. Purpose-built,…

Editor's Note

Calendar

June 7-11 13th International Flight Inspection Symposium, the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec. Contact Nav Canada, phone 613-563-3938 or visit www.navcanada.ca/ifis2004. 14-18 Eurosatory 2004, Paris-Nord-Villepinte Exhibition Center, Paris. For more information, call…

Business & GA

Sole Source Dead: Long Live Loran?

Hope that a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) could constitute a single navigational source so accurate and reliable that no other source would be needed, continues to fade. The Volpe National Transportation…

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: A Pause For Fresh Thought

As the rush continues to equip U.S. commercial aircraft with anti-missile systems developed for the military, a broader perspective of the threat and how to deal with it is emerging. Given the…

Military

Will Projection Displays Give F-35 an Edge?

Prime contractor Lockheed Martin and avionics provider Rockwell Collins are placing a calculated bet that their new flight deck projection display technology for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will result in…